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Decorating Tips
- Instead of purchasing expensive wall paper to decorate your walls, use special effects such as faux painting, stenciling, stamping, sponging and transfers to transform your room into a special and stylish place.
- Use your collections to their best advantage by grouping them together on a shelf, mantle, bookcase, endtable, even on a shelf or ledge above a door.
- Resurrect old and worn furniture with sanding, priming and paint or finish. Special effects such as faux painting can also make humdrum and tired peices look new and fresh again.
- Fabric can be expensive but pretty sheets found at discount centers can be used to make curtains, table clothes, duvets and pillows.
- An inexpensive and personal picture for your walls can be created with botanicals. Ferns, some flowers, and herbs can be pressed and dried to make lovely arrangements in a picture frame. Experimenting with flora and fauna can create unique and natural works of art for your walls that can be enjoyed all year round.
- Collections of smooth rocks, seashells and beach glass in glass
mason jars for a table or shelf can make an eyecatching arrangement as
well as a personal memoir of a trip.
- Color is important to any room. Pick a main color and
accent it with one or two other "theme" colors. For example, pale
yellow walls accented with blue and red in fabric and
accessories.
- You can also use several shades of one color to make a striking
statement. Accent this style with one color that is not in the
same color family to act as an anchor for the eye.
- Black makes a great color "anchor" and works with just about any
color. Black as an accent whether in lamps, hardware,
accessories and picture frames, really helps to define a
room.
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Antique Stores - Bargain Hunting - Learn More Book List
Fabric - Floors - Furniture - Lighting - Walls - Windows
Copyright 2004 by Joan R. Wollin
Created June 20, 2004
Last updated August 8, 2004